Summary:The second season of the drama about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Claire Foy) includes the 1956 Suez crisis, meeting President Kennedy (Michael C. Hall), Princess Margaret's relationship with future husband Tony Armstrong-Jones (Matthew Goode), and the resignation of her Prime Minister,The second season of the drama about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Claire Foy) includes the 1956 Suez crisis, meeting President Kennedy (Michael C. Hall), Princess Margaret's relationship with future husband Tony Armstrong-Jones (Matthew Goode), and the resignation of her Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan.…Expand

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Like its first season, each new episode makes its mark and tells its own complete story, all while staying linked to Elizabeth’s journey as a monarch, mother, and wife. It’s another exceptionally strong season of television, full of compelling drama and sweeping grandeur.

The first season was initially hagiography masking as a high-end TV series, but the second season is Vanity Fair, full of characters, life, humor, passion and buttered scones. Morgan not only has a series to match his 2006 Oscar-winning movie, “The Queen,” but finally one to exceed it. The Crown--the second season, anyway--is magnificent.

This personal, complex portrayal of a monarch who by her own admission in the show would rather be living any other life is riveting enough. But The Crown is also a history lesson, as my colleague David Sims has put it, albeit a selective one. It’s gorgeously shot, with flawless re-creations of everything from the Throne Room in Buckingham Palace to a 1950s hospital ward. And it’s surprisingly funny.

Utterly fascinating. ... The Crown is a showcase for keen character observation and inspired acting, not only from Foy. As Philip, Smith is able to show more dimensions of a man who's hard to like, but not easy to outright condemn.

If the first season was reminiscent of The Queen, then the second season is more like The Other Boleyn Girl. The drama has been dialed up to 11 and the structure of the series is such that Morgan squeezes every ounce of romance from the stone.

Not everything Mr. Morgan tries works--an episode involving Elizabeth’s complicated feelings toward Jacqueline Kennedy, and a plot contrivance in which Philip is more closely linked to the Profumo scandal than history would suggest, don’t pan out. But the pleasures of high-class melodrama are always present, as is the comforting notion--increasingly hard to believe--that our leaders can be compassionate, intelligent and exceedingly well behaved.

The drama’s second season (it debuts Friday; I’ve seen all 10 episodes) unfortunately isn’t at that level [of season one]. It’s peppered with moments, and even whole episodes, that evoke the quality of season one, but overall there are enough decisions to bring it down into “If you like this sort of thing, you’ll probably like this sort of thing” territory, where once it was the sort of show where I always had to preface my remarks with, “I know this doesn’t sound like it’s for you, but…”

Claire Foy provides yet another excellent performance as Queen Elizabeth II. It is a shame this will be her last season on the show as anClaire Foy provides yet another excellent performance as Queen Elizabeth II. It is a shame this will be her last season on the show as an other actress steps in to play the Queen.…Expand

I loved Season 1 of The Crown and I didn't think it was possible for Season 2 to be better, but it is. Terrific acting, wonderful directing,I loved Season 1 of The Crown and I didn't think it was possible for Season 2 to be better, but it is. Terrific acting, wonderful directing, and high production values.. There are no weak links here.…Expand

The first season was my favorite of last year; this time, the queen continues her reign marvelously. This is, without a doubt, the best seriesThe first season was my favorite of last year; this time, the queen continues her reign marvelously. This is, without a doubt, the best series of 2017. It has surprising moments, tension moments and drama moments. Claire Foy is excellent again as queen Elizabeth II, she proves that a great actor is not the one that shouts and cries a lot, she´s not doing that, she is using her face to say a lot of things even without opening her mouth. The duke of Edinburgh is more present in this season, this is not bad, but it takes off a lot of time of Claire Foy; this doesn't´t mean that the series is boring or not good. In the end, The Crown season 2 is excellent, it entertained me every episode, and sometimes it bring me a little of suspense, something that shouldn't be, because this is a historical drama; but it does. And finally, I´m very excited for season 3, and I´m sure, we´ll all mis the magnificent Claire Foy.…Expand

The first season was good, this one is awesome. Great actors, beautiful stories...the photography is beautiful.
Claire Foy is fantastic!The first season was good, this one is awesome. Great actors, beautiful stories...the photography is beautiful.
Claire Foy is fantastic!
This is, for me, the best show on Netflix this year and probably the best at all
Can't wait for the third season…Expand

Escalating the conflicts with élan while retaining all of the grace that ferried its breathtaking freshman season, Season 2 of Netflix’s TheEscalating the conflicts with élan while retaining all of the grace that ferried its breathtaking freshman season, Season 2 of Netflix’s The Crown is a multifaceted realisation of the British royal family between 1956 and 1964.…Expand

For a European like myself watching the utterly gut-wrenching scene of Prince Philip marching behind a cohort of Nazis or all the otherFor a European like myself watching the utterly gut-wrenching scene of Prince Philip marching behind a cohort of Nazis or all the other obscenely fake historical takes on the death of his sister was enough to wake up from this languid soap opera and realize this is extremely well packaged, meticulously assembled and well acted ...trash…Expand